Maps of Vicksburg

United States War Department. “Atlas of the war of the Rebellion giving Union and Confederate armies by actual surveys by the Union and Confederate engineers, and approved by the officers in command, of all the maps herein published.” Plate XXXVI. 1 Atlas ([3] Leaves, 40 Folded Plates, [14] Leaves): Ill. Folded Col. Maps, Plans New York: Atlas Pub. Co., 1892. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. http://www.loc.gov/item/2009581111 (accessed August 31, 2013).

Maps of Vicksburg

Vicksburg was a big problem for the North because you came along and around the bend and were pelted with artillery. It was a gauntlet. Below is a depiction of the Revetments on the river where they fired on the ships. The Mississippi River flows differently today, the river has moved since the Civil War and parts of the river back then are now lakes.

Johnson's Island POW Record

Johnson's Island POW Record

This is a record of Richard's Imprisonment at Johnson's Island from the Friends and Descendants of Johnson's Island Civil War Prison

http://johnsonsisland.heidelberg.edu/

Richard Lauren McClung

Richard Lauren McClung

My great great grandfather Richard Lauren McClung passed this diary down to his grandson Sergeant James Monroe Pepper who was my great uncle and a hero of the Second World War, a combat medic in the invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and southern France, he wanted me to understand the cost of freedom.